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...enzyme reactions in your body go one way, spontaneous combustion occurs; you burst into flames. The odds against this are staggeringly high, but it happened to a woman in St. Petersburg, Florida...
Zone 13 is the police designation for a jagged area of St. Petersburg, Fla., that has been gerrymandered to include most of the city's Negro districts. No white cop had ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
...district court found that St. Petersburg police assignments were not unreasonable, arbitrary or unconstitutional. Racial classification of the city's cops, said the court, was only a matter of police efficiency. In blunt and unequivocal language, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has now reversed that decision. Said Judge John Minor Wisdom: "If, police efficiency were an end in itself, the police would be free to put an accused on the rack. Police efficiency must yield to constitutional rights...
Fleas & Elephant. A united Europe is bound to emerge as the world's leading power, predicted Zhukov, making it clear that Russia ought to be included in the family. Even before the birth of the U.S., he said, "Dutch merchants traveled to St. Petersburg and Peter the Great came to Holland to learn a trade." This type of cooperation, he feels, continues today in such enterprises as the French Renault and Italian Fiat auto plants in the Soviet Union...
Died. Daniel L. Marsh, 88, president of Boston University from 1926 to 1951, chancellor since 1951, and architect of B.U.'s development into a first-rank center of learning; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crusty, often controversial in matters not relating to education, Marsh was a fervent advocate of Prohibition, believed that because of TV "we are destined to have a nation of morons." There was no argument about the near miracle he worked at B.U., where he took a moldering collection of brownstones for 9,600 students in 1926 and built a multiversity that today boasts 23,000 students...